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Due to the use of water and the effects of gravity on it, the extrusion has been designed in downward vertical direction. The air-cooling ring, with the possibility of automatic thickness tolerance regulation by segmented air flow if requested, serves mainly as a stabilizer for a defined blow-up ratio. After the desired tubular diameter is reached, the film immediately enters the cooling chamber where it is shock cooled by water rather than the traditional frost line approach and fast crystallization. It is the expertise of Reifenhäuser Blown Film Plamex to optimize this process with efficient water exchange, achieving a turbulence free procedure removing maximum heat in a minimum amount of time with remarkable optical properties. An installed vacuum settles the shape of the bubble and allows the film to leave the cooling chamber almost dry. Approximately 10Kcal / cm circumference can be extracted (PA6, 500 kg/h, ΔT 190, dlf. 800mm, 100 µm).

With respect to achieving a desired stiffness of the film or influencing its curling effects, we highly recommend the integration of SSP (Solid State Postcrystallization) aggregate, which is positioned after the reversing haul-off. With this system, the amorphous film is pulled over a couple of defined tempered rolls, adjusting the film according to desired specifications. No adverse effects on transparency and thermo-formability occur during SSP as the growth of makrosperulites no longer occurs by the time this process begins. On request this system can also be used for MDO (Machine Direction Orientation).

• When the highest requirements are demanded for transparency, gloss, puncture and tear resistance as well as thermo-formability for the lowest investment and material cost
• When highest throughputs along with paramount film properties are required
• When downstream mono or biaxial orientation takes place due to the vitality of an amorphous structure as a precondition for good orientation (e.g. thin lid films)
• For medical films with high demands for transparency, puncture and tear resistance and high seal strength (e.g. bags for liquids made from Polypropylene modified with Elastomers)

• Immense cost savings due to the use of standard polymers instead of more expensive copolymers (e.g. standard PA6 types instead of slower crystallization C-types)
• Excellent optical properties (gloss, transparency)
• A balanced orientation in machine and transversal direction (MD = TD)
• Highest possible throughputs, due to the relief of cooling limits imposed on more traditional extrusion methods
• Edge trims unnecessary. There is also the possibility to produce tubular films (e.g. pouches without wide welding, heavy duty bags)
• Smaller space requirement with respect to air-cooled blown film lines especially in height. Thus lowering building and steelwork investments.
• Return on investment measurably better than that of cast and conventional blown film lines.

1. First step is the production of an amorphous primary product, the most important precondition for each orientation to follow. Therefore Reifenhäuser Blown Film Plamex developed a vacuum cooling device, which makes the cooling media uniform, with high throughput to the melt.
2. The primary tube is then tempered to the thermoelastic area. Depending on the extruded resins Plamex offers a combination of water and IR – tempering.
3. The heated tube gets biaxially oriented in the orientation unit where the degree of orientation (MD and TD) and the required diameter of the bubble is automatically controlled
4. Thermofixation takes place in an oven by means of hot air or alternatively, steam. Thermofixation is necessary in order to avoid shrinkage of the wound up film later on. Alternatively Plamex offers thermofixation by heated rolls.
5. Perfect reel quality is assured by reversing nips and sophisticated winding technology. The complete process up to the finished reel after reversing haul – off is automatically controlled.

• Mono- and multilayer sausage casing lines
• Shrink bag film lines
• Lines for the poroduction of biaxially oriented lid-films
• Lines for the production of biaxially oriented heavy duty bags

Related fields of application

• MDO-Aggregates
• Strapping tape Lines
• Monofilament Lines
• Lines for the production of monoaxially oriented tapes
• Lines for the production of biaxially oriented Lines

In order to meet all demands of their customers, a variety of options are available: Mono and multilayer, conventional-vertical, Pancake–stackable horizontal, conical.
The selection of the right steel, coating and the best finish of the surfaces in contact with the melt are preconditions for the quality of the complete die head.

The specific Plamex design is distinguished by:

• Side feeding: Allowing a low building height for ergonomic operation
• Central bore for Internal Bubble Cooling (IBC)
• Compact assembly with minimized single parts and clamping system for easy disassembly and cleaning
• Short residual times for the melt through binary distribution in horizontal and vertical levels
• Computer aided design of all channels and spirals optimized for: layer thickness distribution, variety if polymer combinations, throughputs and melt pressure
• Uniform heat distribution inside the die body by “heat rods”
• Super finishing of all the surfaces in contact with the melt; alternatively coated with:
  nickel, hard-chrome, anti-adhesion special coating alloys

Special tubular tools for circumferential coating of woven structures e.g. the manufacturing of polyurethane coated polyester-based woven tube, which serves to re-seal corroded pipes in the ground. For this special application Plamex developed and delivered large caliber coating dies up to a diameter of 600mm. Larger diameters are available upon request.